
Ms. Weingarten is now proposing lower class sizes for those schools as well. Ms. Weingarten's business partner, NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, has also agreed to discuss these things.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
~Noam Chomsky